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11 entries match Americas (non-U.S.) [Z01.107] · Alternative & Fringe Medicine [G02.403.750 / M01] · Pharmacology & Therapeutics [D01 / E02]
2015 CE
#10275
A Cree healer and his medicine bundle: Revelations of indigenous wisdom: Healing plants, practices, and stories.
"With the rise of urban living and the digital age, many North American healers are recognizing that traditional medicinal knowledge must be recorded before being lost with its elders. A Cree Healer and His Medicine B…
1990 CE
#7513
Aztec medicine, health, and nutrition.
1794 CE
#8004
Demostracion de las eficaces virtudes nuevamente descubiertas en las raices de dos plantas de Nueva-España, especies de ágave y de begónia, para la curacion del vicio venéreo y escrofuloso ...
Balmis conducted experimental trials on the effectiveness of two Mexican plants, agave and begonia, which were believed, according to folk medicine practices in Mexico, to cure syphilis and scrofula. The trials confir…
2004 CE
#9899
Jamaican folk medicine: A source of healing.
1988 CE
#8791
Passage of darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian zombie.
1993 CE
#10872
Rio Tigre and beyond: The Amazon jungle medicine of Manual Cordova-Rios
1997 CE
#9910
Sacred leaves of Candomblé: African magic, medicine, and religion in Brazil.
"Candomblé, an African religious and healing tradition that spread to Brazil during the slave trade, relies heavily on the use of plants in its spiritual and medicinal practices. When its African adherents were…
1994 CE
#9937
Tales of a shaman's apprentice: An ethnobotanist searches for new medicines in the Amazon rain forest.
1971 CE
#10858
The pre-Columbian mind: A study into the aberrant nature of sexual drives, drugs affecting behaviour and the attitude towards life and death, with a survey of psychotherapy in pre-Columbian America.
1993 CE
#9017
Tobacco and shamanism in South America.
A comprehensive ethnography of magico-religious, medicinal, and recreational tobacco use among native South American societies, based on a survey of nearly three hundred societies.
1992 CE
#13344
